Contestants say food, water, prescription medicine and clean underwear were withheld — but the YouTuber is blaming external factors.

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      • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
        62·
        4 months ago

        It’s a very good video. A former employee (confirmed btw) breaks everything down about Jimmy piece by piece from how his videos are faked and winners are rigged to how Jimmy holds literal illegal lotteries exploiting children. He was recently sent a cease and desist by the beast team under the claim he was leaking “company secrets”, which is a bad look, and one of their employees directly responded to him to “debunk” the video but instead mostly attacks his character and completely ignores the whole targeting children with illegal lotteries part. It’s pretty damning, and he is releasing a part 2 video soon.

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
          16·
          4 months ago

          Thanks for the info.

          illegal lotteries exploiting children

          Can you please elaborate on this bit? Do you mean that it’s illegal because any lottery has to be state-run or some other aspect? And how are children exploited? Is it because they’re the contestants in the videos or something else?

          • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
            30·
            4 months ago

            In the US, you can’t sell a product with a chance to receive a prize without having “no purchase necessary” and a means to enter for free. Mr. Beast did not do this in the past and also changed the terms for the lottery after sales.

          • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
            12·
            4 months ago

            The comment above this one sums up what an illegal lottery is. He has openly admitted he knows children are his core demographic, which means these illegal lotteries were clearly targeting them. With things like “if you buy my X you can possibly recieve a ps5!” Or implying he would sign random shirts and telling his audience of children they have a chance at getting a signed shirt if they bought his merch. Incidentally, that was a lie. The video proves it by showing a live stream where staff were quietly signing shirts using Jimmy’s signature, essentially forging his name. One employee realizes that they were caught and briefly looks guilty on stream before pretending nothing happened . And then there’s the feastables bullshit, where he tells it’s audience his xhicolate is “healthy” which, yeah once upon a time they were gealthuer, but he changed the ingriediants to significantly unhealthier ones and still told his audience it was “healthy”.

      • kurap1ka@lemmy.world
        25·
        4 months ago

        MrBeast uses a lot of illegal gambling techniques to hook children. The chocolate bar is advertised as healthy but the recipe was changed after launch, making it even unhealthier than Hershey. A lot of episodes and winners are scripted and somehow favor friends and families of staff. Even the signature on shirts are fake, as someone not Jimmy was seen on stream signing as MB.

    • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
      26·
      4 months ago

      Remember rich ppl do charity to duck paying taxes!Government social services have a much wider reach than any millionaire or billionaire and the tax money they should be receiving from the upper class could benefit millions of ppl instead of the few lucky enough to receive their “charity”

    • dch82@lemmy.zipOP
      12·
      4 months ago

      My bad. I suggest you post that separately perhaps on the same community so that everyone gets the info.

      EDIT: I put the link on the main post

            • Samvega
              8·
              4 months ago

              You only know him from controversies.

              “It’s not fair to mention that he gets drunk and beats his wife. He also has a lovely singing voice, does that not count for something?”

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
          3·
          4 months ago

          The difference here is that The Verge is a tech site. That they chose to lead with the tech-related aspect shouldn’t be surprising. Not a Verge apologist; I mostly stick to ArsTechnica.

        • Fontasia@feddit.nl
          3·
          4 months ago

          There are plenty of better reasons to hate The Verge; reposting Press Releases as “news”, jumping on trends of public opinion, 12 minute video summaries of 30 minute events, staff who think Debian is some sort of anti allergy medication (this has gotten better, but there is still a little too much Tim Cook semen spitting at times.), “reporters” who have the job of reposting anything from Techmeme and techurls, the stench of Vox elitism, staff posting quote tweets as news and staff posting their purchase recommendation emails from Amazon (with affiliate links added) as “deals”.

          All that being said, it’s still leagues ahead of Gizmodo and I do think it’s worth reading.